2016
DOI: 10.21833/ijaas.2016.09.006
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Religion and entrepreneurial Intentions: An empirical investigation

Abstract: This current study aimed to investigate the impact of religion on entrepreneurial intentions of the final year business students in private higher educational institutes of Pakistan. Data were collected with the help of a structured questionnaire; a total number of 290 responses were collected from the students studying in private higher educational institute. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was employed and data were analysed using SmartPLS version 2 software. The empirical results of the study reveal tha… Show more

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“…Religiosity described by how far individuals have a commitment to approve and apply dogma by reflecting behaviour in life (Sungkar, 2010). This is supported and in line with the research from Balog (2013), Abdullahi (2015), Riaz (2016) and Youcef (2015), said that religiosity factor has a positive and significant influence on the interest of entrepreneur…”
Section: Introductionsupporting
confidence: 85%
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“…Religiosity described by how far individuals have a commitment to approve and apply dogma by reflecting behaviour in life (Sungkar, 2010). This is supported and in line with the research from Balog (2013), Abdullahi (2015), Riaz (2016) and Youcef (2015), said that religiosity factor has a positive and significant influence on the interest of entrepreneur…”
Section: Introductionsupporting
confidence: 85%
“…2015),Riaz (2016), andYoucef (2015) which stated that religiosity has a positive and significant influence on entrepreneurial interest.This research is also not in line with the opinions expressed by Menzter in Juliana(2017) stating that religion has an influence on entrepreneurial motivation. In addition, this study also rejected previous studies including Balog (2013), Abdullahi (2015), Riaz (2016), andYoucef (2015) which stated that religiosity has a positive and significant influence on entrepreneurial interest.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Data analysis in this study was conducted with the help of the software package, SmartPLS, Version 3.0 M3 as suggested by [19]Smart PLS is extensively utilized in the field of marketing and management science [20], [21], [30]- [34], [22]- [29] . This technique uses two stage approach to analyze the data 1-evaluation of measurement model 2evaluation of structural model.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In particular, the PLS-SEM method was employed to analyze the collected data. The Partial Least Squares technique is a powerful component-based method widely used in prior studies (Farrukh, Khan, et al, 2017;Farrukh, Chong, Mansori, & Ravan Ramzani, 2017;Farrukh, Wei Ying, & Abdallah Ahmed, 2016;Farrukh, Ying, & Mansori, 2016Riaz, Farrukh, Rehman, & Ishaque, 2016;Shahzad, Farrukh, Kanwal, & Sakib, 2018).PLS SEM is a two-step process in the first step measurement/ outer model is evaluated for validity and reliability while in the second step path coefficients are tested for significance.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%